string-bow

Updated: May 27, 2025

How few things there are, after all, which ages ago—probably through a long evolution—were designed to meet a real need in the best possible manner and which still meet that need and combine true beauty with their usefulness. The wrought-iron shoe of a horse occurs to us, perhaps a ship’s anchor, a string-bow or an axe helve.

Henry H. (Henry Hodgman) Saylor - Making a Fireplace